Singularity Blog Insights

Abstract

This chapter presents four articles from the blogosphere. In the first, Eliezer Yudkowsky provides the three most commonly used meanings of the Singularity: Accelerating Change where the Singularity occurs because of exponential improvements in technology, the Event Horizon where technology will improve to the point where a human-level intelligence can’t predict what will happen, and the Intelligence Explosion in which a self-improving artificial intelligence quickly brings about a singularity. In the next essay, Stuart Armstrong, one of the editors of this book, analyzes many past predictions of AI development. In the third article Scott Siskind discusses reasons why we shouldn’t wait to research AI safety. In the final entry, Scott Aaronson discusses why he does not think that a singularity is near.